Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-08

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HON, wu. c. ENDICOTT.
NAVY, and cst-G- cornered across the street
liz 4 southWesterIy direction is the pala-
tiaI mansion built and occupied by SeGa-
tor Window q decade ego. In the spring
Of 1854 James G. Blaine leased IL until
the following March, when he had hoped
10 change his residence for the White
House. But that day mas come and gone,
and anOthermGu whose name was uknO Wn
when Blaine was 8 power in the land IS
master st the Executive Mansion. After
the great fallen statesman gave M the
Window house it was rented by sn ONO
millionaire named Brain2rdH. " ar1er, who
has made q million N Washington real
estate since he took il up. He gave 1t UP
only o week sgO; it is now vacant. \
hundred yards west OF Secretary Ecdi-
colts, on Massachusetts avenue, IS the
priuCely residence OF StUSO1 Uu.Chins,
the able editor of the WASHINGTON Post,
and Secretary BayGrd and Postmaster
General Villas both reside within quarter
Of q miles distance.
The Endicott home is surrounded by
CT unfenced lawn, and is approached by
two short flights of gray stone
steps. 1t is three stories III height,
with gable in front AMI three
on esch side. There are two bay
windows on the second floor, and the
broad window of the parlOr on the first
zaoor opens on 8 quaint iron rallied portI-
Eco, from which splendid view can be
had OF Connecticut avenue (the peGes-
.trIgn boulevard and the equestrian
Statue of General Scott, which stands in
the center OF Scott circle, forty feet dis
SAINT to the south. Ifyou are Observant,
as gau. enter the house you will notice
that TIE door knobs are grOtesquely
carved with Japanese figures, and all
this was executed before the reign Of the
MikadO, too.
The door is opened by young Teuton,
and YOU find yourself in little square
ante-room, comfortably but no. luXuri-
ously furnished. The TeutOn takes your
card (iD his hand) and leaves you to the
contemplation Of g half dozen splendid
antIers which decorate the walls, and
were presented to the owner by army
officers. Before you have an opportunity
to look az anything else Secretary
Endicott enters the room, and if you
are ere g newspaper man, you ere sure
70 be urprised-agreeably l say
surprised, because our host has
been represented IS acting most
uugrgCiCus to our Bohemian
fraternity, and have no hesitG-
ton in saying that think the represent
t&tions false in toto. l cannot imagine s
man rs evidently to the manner born be-
ing uugraciou5 to anybody. lie is Of ne
dium height, with splendid physique,
and a head Of iron gray hair as thick Gs 2
school boys, and parted on the left side
over 8 good forehe2d His mOUst2che
and goatee are also heavy and CT the
seine color, while his complexion is clear
and his hands white. He is dressed care
IesslY in g loose fitting gray sack cost
and vest with trousers ola darker color.
But, nevertheless, the Secretary Of War
has ! decidedly distinguished appearance,
and the ladies', who are of course the best
judges, say he is handsome.
Going upstair to the Secretary's office,
which is the second room back on the
second floor and has & southern expos
ure, noticed tall, old-fashioned clock,
eight feet high on the stair landing. Il
is not unlike General Albert Pixies his
toric clock, which l wrote Of LIST week,
but nv host assured me he knew nothing
of It's history, as it belongs to Minister
Pendleton, and was in the house when he
came there, over two years ago. And
that reminds me that most of the elegant
furniture IN the house belongs to the Pen
tetfetons, who rented it just as 1t was
when Senator Pendleton was given the
German mission. But here we are in the
library, where most Of the work done by
Secretary EndiCott out OF Office hours is
accomplished.
80 O nPprlU TWEEN
ty-fve feet each way, and the western
wall is lined with cases containing about
1000 sbooks, ,most Of them handsomely
bound and very inviting looking. I no
ticed Shakespeare, Byron, Milton and
Shelley among them, and on the desk
which the Secretary uses most saw
fresh looking copies of the "AmeTican
Statesman" by Morse, and Dom Piatt's
'fMen Who Saved the UniOn.h a chrome
of "Little Miss Mufet' hung on the wall,
but the spider was not visible
"I am very fond Of reading but 1 have
hard WORK finding time 70 indulge NY
SELF says our host, seating himself com
fortsbJv on one chair and crossing his
legs on another. 81 Tesd the magazines
nearly always, and books when get
chsuce. II would be hard to name either
nv fsvorite poet or prose author, tut
like the standard books best"
The Secretary has 8 splendid span OF
horses and is also fond OF horseback ex-
ercise. He is generally driven
down to MS Office in the State,
War and Navy Department, be-
fore 10 O'Clock, remains there until
3 o. m, when he returns home to lunCh.I
Unless business is very pressing mel
1ooerJ4 o0 hnok m tho Office Int h9G t1ei
Chief Clerk call st his house, If necessary
instead. u
Frequently in the afternoons he drives
out, accompanied by his wife, his dsughi
ter and his son, William G. Endirntr
Jr. who was admitted to the bar yeak
az o and was appointed to a legal position
by Attorney General Garland shor 4
y sitter. At the family din q.